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Post by xander on Sept 11, 2009 0:02:59 GMT -5
Xander pulled the hood of his jacket closer to his face. It was hard enough navigating the ship during the day but with the lights off it was almost impossible. Thankfully his destination wasn’t far, he just had to make sure he knocked on the right door.
He placed he palm on the door out of reflex before knocking. After a second he placed his ear against the metal before knocking again.
“Hey Legend,” he hissed, “You up?”
Leaning back he looked back and forth in the hall. This would really suck if someone else was behind the door. It would be horrible if he had to explain to Seiya why he was wandering around at 2 ‘o clock in the morning. In retrospect he probably should have made up a story just in case. Now it was too late, and he waited to see if Gabe was behind the door or not.
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Post by gabriel on Sept 11, 2009 0:26:26 GMT -5
Gabe rolled over when he heard the slight hiss of his door opening. He blinked from behind the hand he'd raised to block the light coming in from the hallway. He couldn't see who was standing at the door because all the light was behind them. It just looked like some shadowy figure.
He rolled out of bed and pulled on some jeans he'd left in a pile on the floor as he heard Xander call out to him. "Yeah man, its me," he said wiping his eyes and snatching a crumpled t-shirt from where he'd kicked to the bottom of the bed. He pulled it over his head and walked the short distance to the door. "What are you doing here?"
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Post by xander on Sept 11, 2009 0:45:46 GMT -5
“Up for causing some trouble?” Xander asked with a dangerous glint in his eye, “Or better yet getting one over on Professor Kovu?”
He stepped out of the way and got a better look at Gabe. Maybe this wasn’t the best idea but it was so worth seeing his friend for once not on the top of his game. In fact, Xander raised an eyebrow and stiffed a laugh. Waking up all of the recruits was not an option. After his unmanly noises were done he took a breath.
“You really are out of it mate,” he said breathlessly, “Your shirts on backwards.”
He took one more breath, “Look, you don’t have to come with me but I figured you’d appreciate the offer. I can’t guarnette what will happen if we get caught. So if you want to tread lightly go back to counting sheep. What do ya say?”
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Post by gabriel on Sept 11, 2009 1:19:24 GMT -5
"Sure," Gabriel said as he pulled his arms back into his shirt and struggled to turn it around, looking for a moment like he had a straight jacket on. He got his shirt turned around and walked past Xander and out into the hallway. The hallway felt much more empty at this time of night with the overly bright lights dimmed down almost to nothing.
He looked around for a moment and then turned and palmed his door closed. "What exactly did you have in mind?" he asked in the whisper the quiet of the hallways seemed to inspire. Gabriel remembered what Xe had looked like when he'd gotten through his first training session with Kovu. He could get behind Xe wanting a little revenge. He just wanted to know how far this was going to go.
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Post by xander on Sept 12, 2009 2:20:33 GMT -5
Xander smiled and put a finger to his lips, “I never kiss and tell mate.” Besides he wasn’t sure he could explain it. It was just something he understood and did, made him a sucky teacher that was for sure. Also he wasn’t sure if he trusted Gabe’s lying skills. If caught he’d at least like the fellow to have plausible deniability.
Ever since Seiya had let it slip that there were functioning labs on the ship, he’d been itching to get into one without supervision. Up until now Xander only had access to every day supplies, and while the ERA had taught him well there was only so much you could do with dish soap. Now he had a chance to get his hands on the pure stuff.
“Just have to get across ship,” he smiled to himself, “then I show you. Think you can manage that?”
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Post by gabriel on Sept 12, 2009 2:37:17 GMT -5
"Of course I can manage that," Gabriel said stopping and leaning arrogantly against the hallway wall with his arms over his chest and one ankle crossing the other. Unfortunately for him they had walked far enough that they were now standing next to another door in the recruit's hallways and his shoulder hit a locking panel.
The door next to him gave its customary hiss as it slid open and Gabriel jumped away in surprise. He looked into the now open room and then looked over at Xander an, 'oops, my bad,' expression on his face. He didn't even know who lived there.
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Post by jonathan on Sept 12, 2009 3:03:20 GMT -5
Jon was lying flat on his belly, head turned sideways and one eye fixed on the alarm clock beside his bunk. It was a digital clock and the numbers cast a soft, neon red glow in the pitch blackness of his room. 2 AM. Outside the door to his room, there was some muffled talking that Jon couldn't quite hear. He was in the process of wondering who and why somebody was up, when his door slid open.
Shifting on his side, Jon held up a hand to the sudden blaze of light, squinting. "Hey--who's there? Why'd my door get opened...?" As he spoke with a slight twinge of annoyance, he was pulling himself to an upright position, back against his wall.
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Post by xander on Sept 12, 2009 3:17:39 GMT -5
He turned to start off toward the labs when Gabe spoke. Xander rolled his eyes and laughed quietly. All seemed fine until he heard the door open. A shiver ran up his spine and he looked over his shoulder. His luck couldn’t have been that horrible that they would be caught already. Taking in Gabe’s expression, Xander sent one back of confusion until he saw that Gabe had opened it on accident. With the confusion gone he sent daggers at his friend before walking back in his direction.
Xander recognized Jon’s voice after a moment and hit himself in the forehead. He wasn’t happy the other recruit was awake but now he had to deal with it or so he felt. Leaning in the doorway he put on his best smile.
“We’re going for a walk,” he kept his voice at a whisper, “Sorry to wake you. Go back asleep unless you want to come with.”
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Post by jonathan on Sept 14, 2009 4:13:05 GMT -5
His confusion turned to recognition at the sound of Xander's voice. At least it wasn't Seiya, because being woken up in the middle of the night by him seemed like it would only spell trouble. Jon pressed the palms of his hands against his face, feeling the heavy fog of sleep slowly fading away as he listened. The covers on his bunk were piled around his waist, keeping his legs warm.
Lowering his hands, he leaned his head against the cool wall of his room and stared at the open space where Xander was leaning. "A walk...? At 2 in the morning?" The questions came out as a murmur, almost barely audible. It was more him thinking out loud than anything. Why in the world would somebody want to walk around a ship so late? Tugging at the blankets, he smoothed a hand through his mussed hair. While he had nothing against Xander, sleeping sounded better than shuffling around a cold hallway in the late night. "Uhm. I think I'm good here. Thanks, though, have fun."
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Post by gabriel on Sept 16, 2009 23:25:03 GMT -5
Gabriel looked over at Xander and then at the shadowy figure in the room. He didn't know the kid very well but he was always willing to make more friends. Besides, as far as he could see, if they were going to do something that they could get in trouble for later they best not have any witnesses. If Jon stayed he'd be a witness, if he came he'd be just as guilty as the rest of them...and it would probably be fun.
"Come on Johnny boy," Gabriel said in a loud, conspiratorial stage whisper. "We're just going for a little walk, nothing serious, get out of bed man." He leaned on the door frame and stuck his head in through the door. "What? Are you afraid or something?"
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Post by jonathan on Sept 18, 2009 3:18:11 GMT -5
"Come on Johnny boy," Another voice said. In his haze of being half-awake, Jon hadn't even realized there was another person there. Listening to the other guy speak, he rubbed his face to try and wake himself up. "Well, when you put it that way..." He murmured. The two of them seemed intent on getting him to go with them, and now that he was getting mostly awake he figured what could it hurt. "Okay. Okay. Sure."
Swinging his legs over the bunk's edge, and pausing a moment to question what he was doing, he pushed himself off. He was dressed in only his morphing suit, a tight-fitting leotard that covered his whole body. Not wanting to walk around in only that, he slipped on a pair of jeans and plain t-shirt. Approaching the doorway, he leaned against its frame and blinked at the two of them in the blinding hall light. "Okay, I'm here. Where are you guys walking to?"
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Post by xander on Sept 19, 2009 1:08:27 GMT -5
Xander’s first impulse had been to strangle Gabriel. As he had hoped Jon was going back to bed, but Gabe had told him to get up and join them. Thankfully he was able to restrain himself and entertain the thought that he actually had a plan. While he was positive he wasn’t an idiot, Xander still questioned his logic.
He clasped his hands behind his back and waited as Jon got dressed. The gears in his head turned until he figured out a possible way to handle the situation, vagueness. He’d already kept Gabriel most of the way out of the loop, so theoretically it would be just as easy to keep them both all the way out of it.
When Jon joined them, Xander released his hands and began walking. “You two ever been in the labs?” he asked, “They’re something to see. I was figuring we could head in that direction”. As he spoke he glanced over his shoulder to see if the other recruits were following.
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Post by gabriel on Sept 22, 2009 23:04:50 GMT -5
"Come on," Gabriel said, grabbing Jon's shoulder and pulling him the rest of the way out of the room as Xander turned and started walking down the hallway.
Gabriel quickly turned and palmed John's door closed so that the turtle could not go back in his shell and took a moment to look up and down the quiet hallways to see if any of the other students had been woken up by their sneaking.
Xander announced their direction and Gabriel spoke up right after him. "Anyone else feel like they are in a Harry Potter book? Like, we're sneaking around the hallways of our slightly cooler than normal school for people with super powers of some kind. All we need is a cloak of invisibility and a Marauder's Map." Gabriel mimed waving a wand over an imaginary parchment. "I solemnly swear I am up to no good. Oh look, there's Seiya," Gabriel said pointing.
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Post by jonathan on Sept 25, 2009 2:15:22 GMT -5
"I don't think I have," Jon said in response to Xander's question. Once the words were out of his mouth, Gabriel was suddenly yanking him away from the room and shutting his door. Jon shot Gabriel an annoyed look, before sighing to himself. He was reconsidering his willingness to do this now, wondering if he would be better off still sleeping in his bed than wandering around the ship for no reason.
Following after Xander, shaking his head slightly at Gabriel. "Sneaking? Are we not supposed to be out at night--" Suddenly Gabriel pointed off in another direction, and Jon's gaze immediately snapped to the space he was pointing at. An unfamiliar feeling of unease had shot through him, partially because he wasn't sure if they should be out here or not. If not, Seiya was the last person they wanted to see. "What? Where?"
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Post by xander on Sept 26, 2009 20:49:24 GMT -5
“Well then you’ll get to see something new then, eh?” He walked backwards to address Jon and then faced forward. Xander hadn’t recognized Gabe’s reference to the books. While he’d heard all about the series, it was hard not to in England, he never read them.
At the mention of Seiya Xander stiffened and began looking around. Second time less than an hour he’d panicked over getting caught. His head snapped over at Gabriel and hit him in the shoulder with the side of his fist.
“Don’t worry so much Jon, should be fine,” Xander gave Gabe a warning look and continued down the hall, “Besides the walk shouldn’t be that long. Could be back to bed bus before the hours end.”
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